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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593087240
ISBN-13
9780593087244
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18050077840
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Publication Name
Ascent of Information : Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
Language
English
Subject
Life Sciences / Evolution, Cosmology, General, Data Processing
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-046554
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for The Ascent of Information "Scharf provides a fascinating history of information theory." -- Booklist "A fascinating study of information and its types." -- Library Journal , STARRED review "A transformative new way of looking at our increasingly data-driven existence." --Lee Billings, Scientific American "Information is a way for one part of the universe to know something about another. What could be more profound than that? In this engaging and wide-ranging book, Caleb Scharf shows how information brings the world to life, both figuratively and literally." --Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime "I really enjoyed The Ascent of Information . The book is packed with provocative ideas, backed by wonderfully marshalled data, and entertaining on every page. Fascinating glimpses of what may turn out to be a new way to look at life." Jonathan Weiner, author of The Beak of the Finch, Praise for The Ascent of Information "A transformative new way of looking at our increasingly data-driven existence." --Lee Billings, Scientific American "Information is a way for one part of the universe to know something about another. What could be more profound than that? In this engaging and wide-ranging book, Caleb Scharf shows how information brings the world to life, both figuratively and literally." --Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime "I really enjoyed The Ascent of Information . The book is packed with provocative ideas, backed by wonderfully marshalled data, and entertaining on every page. Fascinating glimpses of what may turn out to be a new way to look at life." Jonathan Weiner, author of The Beak of the Finch
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
003.54
Synopsis
Caleb Scharf argues that all the data we create - all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos - amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behaviour and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life., Your information has a life of its own, and it ' s using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create--all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos--amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future.
LC Classification Number
Q360.S293 2021
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